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BUG: Outlook: Word: A signature to death!
I have been working lately with this customer who was trying to create new signature files under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures folder which will be used by Outlook 2007 (SP2) but what we discovered is that whenever they try to use it, it used to crash Read More...
Hey!!! Do not forget to “Include” me… Ok?
I am not talking about some Friday night dinner or the latest buff around the corner. I am talking about the “Include” tab on Outlook 2007’s Ribbon UI. Recently I got this case where customer developed a custom email form but he was not able to use the Read More...
HOWTO: Automatically Login to OWA 2007 using HTML + JavaScript
First thing first, you should understand that this is NOT SUPPORTED & NOT RECOMMENDED solution by Microsoft. This is just a proof of concept that OWA 2007 can be auto login, if you know the username & password of target account. The approach is Read More...
HOWTO: EWS: Get OOF State for Self or any user in your organization
First thing first, this is just for demonstration purpose and might *not* be a supported solution by Microsoft. The setting we are reading from are hidden messages and not documented anywhere. I had to reverse engineer it for demonstration purpose. Objective Read More...
HOWTO: Query information related to ProgID & CLSID, verify where the image is loaded from Disk.
Ever copied a DLL from one system to another and registered it using RegSvr32.exe? or in other words ever created a DLL hell situation? Its easy and dirty at the same time to copy-paste DLL between systems and register them using regsvr32.exe Often you Read More...
HOWTO: EWS: Send UTF-16 request to Exchange Web Service from VBScript
I had explained earlier how you can consume Exchange Web Services like WebDAV from VBScript in the below sample http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/11/22/howto-ews-call-exchange-web-service-from-vbscript.aspx Today I had a requirement to send Unicode Read More...
BUG: HasAttachments property is false on meeting occurrence with attachment
I thought it was just the last month full of bugs and fixes. This month also started with a Exchange Web Services bug.. or better Exchange Bug as Exchange Web Service is just a victim :( If you add an attachment to a single occurrence of a recurring CalendarItem, Read More...
BUG: Unable to load WinHTTP.dll into Outlook 2007 VBA References
Are you having hard time in adding WinHTTP.dll into Outlook 2007 VBA references on your Vista machine, so let me tell you that we are aware of it. The problem is shown below.. Look at the location part, which is for sure invalid path. The root cause is Read More...
BUG: 'ErrorNoPublicFolderServerAvailable' is not a valid value for ResponseCodeType
Another fine day and some great timings. I was discussing this bug with product group hoping that it is not faced by anyone outside Microsoft and then the phone rings.... I am getting the following error while trying to do a FindFolder call on to Public Read More...
BUG: ASP.net 2.0 PasswordRecovery Web Control cannot send emails to SSL enabled SMTP Servers
This is a known issue or you can also call it as product limitation. PasswordRecovery control read most of the settings from web.config file. Internally it uses System.Net.Mail to send out email, which does not support reading EnableSSL setting from web.config. Read More...
HOWTO: OOM: Getting Primary SMTP Address from X500
Getting primary address from X500 address was always a pain when using OOM. Thank to these guys who realized this pain and built in this functionality in Outlook 2007 Object Model. I have figured out a way to get this value from within OOM for Outlook Read More...
HOWTO: Delete a Outlook Search Folder programatically
Search folders are very useful but there is no way available using Outlook Object Model to delete them, you need CDO to delete them. Below code can help you remove the SearchFolders from Outlook Function RemoveSearchFolder( ByVal strProfile, ByVal strFolderName Read More...
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